Sibers in Press

To the uninitiated there is often a misconception when it comes to the resources required to develop a mobile app. The general idea is that you partner with a mobile app development company, tell them your idea, fork over a wad of money, and then in a preset amount of time the developer returns with an app ready for launch. This line of thinking is attractive in its simplicity, however it just doesn’t represent the reality of the situation.

What to choose, when building a mobile application: cross-platform Xamarin or native development? Two effective solutions, but very different from one another. Which is the angel and which is the devil? Let’s consider their arguments and get to the bottom of this “moral dilemma”.

We can find hundreds of social apps in the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store. Social networking has been key for the success of mobile app development companies and the spread of smartphones worldwide. So we’ve wanted to investigate more about social mobile apps: how are they made? what are their main features? who uses them?

Igor Chertenkov is iOS Development Team Leader at Sibers. The company, founded in 1998 by Yuriy Bannov, is located in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, and employs more than 150 people. Here’s what Igor had to say about his company and the mobile world.

The Philippines, with its low-cost, English speaking population has always provided competition for US and European freelancers, and Indian companies dominate the bids at job sites like Elance and Odesk. But increasingly Russian firms are winning development work with lower prices and comparative skills that might otherwise have gone to Western programmers.

The HireRussians team has been active on Elance for years and has worked with hundreds of software development clients. We interviewed HireRussians' team member Anie Taskaeva to discuss how the team leverages Elance today and how their application development business has evolved over time.